Opinion – Page 316
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CommentDropping in for a pizza
Thanks to Martin Corbishley for spotting this demonstration of the lengths some people will go to for a decent Quattro Stagione
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CommentConstruction growth continues to roar, but can you hear it?
On the GDP measure, construction grew 9.5% in the second quarter of this year and 4.0% in the latest quarter. Is it real?
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CommentWhen does hospitality become bribery?
New legislation is leaving businesses nervous about what is and isn’t allowed
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CommentTwo bags of ballast = One dimwit in a hi-vis
Thanks to Gavin Williams of Wates for spotting this evidence of the seesaw theory of mathematics
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CommentWhy the spending review might prove a turning onto the road to Nirvana for housebuilders
However, the prospects for housing, housing associations and contractors are far less rosy
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CommentHas government really made an 'investment in the future'?
Osborne made commitments to invest in key areas but capital budgets have still been hit
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CommentSpending review: What’s the damage?
We now have certainty and the knowledge that government plans to invest
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CommentHow I learned to love part L
The Building Regulations - it hardly needs saying - must be greeted with fear and loathing. But oddly, says Gus Alexander, they can instil a feeling approximating joy - if only for 10 seconds
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CommentThe RICS: Are we being served?
Open mike: QSs have little in common with estate agents yet we share the same professional body. We have to break free and form an organisation that truly represents us
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Inbox: Intelligence briefing
Three readers watch the state, another takes surveillance photos and a fifth tries to decipher Building
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Kinetics
Venues: The Gherkin, the Boleyn pub and the Riverside Chinese restaurant Topics: Corporate hospitality, Glen Medeiros, the fall of Connaught, Ian Dury Drinks: One bottle of La Cote Blanche Sancerre 2009, one gin and tonic, 15 pints of Guinness, 14 bottles of lager
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CommentPre-action disclosure in arbitration: Travelers Insurance vs Countrywide Surveyors
This case hinged on whether the court could order documents to be disclosed when the parties were subject to an arbitration agreement
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CommentOsborne establishes his green credentials
It’s a pleasant surprise to see the government backing the low-carbon agenda
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CommentHansom : The bestiary
Strange creatures stalk the diary page this week, including a giraffe on a desert island, a disorganised German organisation and a construction professional who made all the girls swoon
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CommentBalance of terror
Our thanks to Nigel Barrett for this picture of daily life on a south London trading estate.
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CommentRead our online Spending Review debate
Readers put their questions to the industry experts debating the implications of the governement’s Spending Review
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CommentRonson, Pidgley and Kerslake anticipate 5 years of housing gloom
Predictions from panelists at Movers & Shakers breakfast are as cold as the weather following yesterday's CSR
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CommentAt least Crossrail is going ahead (slowly)
The London rail link will arrive three years late, and there’s a steep decline in health capital spending.
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CommentIs the CSR the first step to dismantling social housing?
We know funding for housing has been savaged, but how will the money that is available be allocated and what direct effect that will it have on the number of homes built?